The future is electric

but at the end of the day, you need to sell a lot of units that cost twice as much as conventional units,
Which he does and which don't. Compare a Tesla to a BMW and the prices aren't that different. Except the Tesla's are faster and cheaper to run.

The thing is, Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, it's easier to understand their wealth, either of those being the wealthiest bloke in the world, cool. Elon Musk?, I still don't get it.
Bezos started a mail order bookshop. A brilliant bookshop and one he leveraged to build a gigantic shop for everything and then used that to essentially dominate the cloud it market, which is where almost all his profits come from. I don't think it's any less amazing. Except for his rocket company which is a bit slower than Musk's. Much less impressive.
 
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SpaceX is the biggest space launch company there is at the moment. They're also most of the way through a new satellite system that will earn them billions each year for broadband that no one can compete with.
Has anyone seen the Starlink satellites coming over? One after the other after the other. Spooky.
 
Yeah Mottie. Amazing. In the summer we would check the web site for the exact time they would come over, lay in the garden & watch. Same speed as the space station but not as bright. How many in the train? There about 30 seconds apart.
 
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I am not sure about electric cars, having a fully charged car each time I go out, so no need to call into a garage seems good, but when I go on holiday finding some where to charge it, not so good, and as yet non you can tow a trailer with. So with two cars one being electric that seems OK, but would always need a second car, and not impressed with the fire problem when Richard Hammond crashed one. If the batteries can burst into flame, don't want one parked near my house.
 
I am not sure about electric cars, having a fully charged car each time I go out, so no need to call into a garage seems good, but when I go on holiday finding some where to charge it, not so good, and as yet non you can tow a trailer with. So with two cars one being electric that seems OK, but would always need a second car, and not impressed with the fire problem when Richard Hammond crashed one. If the batteries can burst into flame, don't want one parked near my house.
For a while the Tesla Model X was the only electric car homologated for towing, but now it’s been joined by a handful of others - the Audi e-tron and Mercedes EQC can tow up to 1,800kg, and the Jaguar I-Pace manages 750kg. The Model X’s maximum towing limit is a substantial 2,270kg – easily high enough to haul a large caravan or trailer.
The Rimac he crashed had an epic tumble. That he made it with just a broken leg is a tribute to Rimac. The average EV is significantly safer than the average petrol car. With EVs any fires start slowly and build so you get good footage because you've got time to climb out, find you phone and get the camera app running. There was a crash in the US where someone hit some trees at 100mph in their Tesla, then ran away from the crash on foot. There was a fire when a battery from the car was fired into a nearby house and landed on a bed. There was also a flood because a wheel demolished the pipes for another house.

But the non-tesla charging infrastructure is still pants. Coverage is ok, but too many of them are out of service which is just silly.
 
I've no problem with electric cars

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What about on the bends?:cautious:
 
The admirable thing about Musk is that he's not in it to make money, but to achieve a goal or solve a problem.
He's an engineer, so losses don't matter to him, because that's part of the design process.

He's really pushed the boundaries in the businesses he's set up, and the whole world should be really thankful.
 
The admirable thing about Musk is that he's not in it to make money, but to achieve a goal or solve a problem.
He's an engineer, so losses don't matter to him, because that's part of the design process.

He's really pushed the boundaries in the businesses he's set up, and the whole world should be really thankful.
If NASA trust him to build rockets to take astronauts to the ISS he is one clever chap.
 
Tesla is odd, the biggest EV manufacturer in the world and on the precipice of having working self driving vehicles. How do you price that?

There are organisations "on the recipice" of generating electricity by fusion. How do you price that? :LOL:
 
There are organisations "on the recipice" of generating electricity by fusion. How do you price that? :LOL:
Other than the fact that there aren't, fairly easily. Fusion power would be a simple variation of existing power systems and business models. The international consortium that is trying to build the first PoC fusion reactor isn't expecting to be built for at least 5 years and it isn't even going to generate electricity.

Whilst Teslas are driving around autonomously, albeit not always perfectly, already.
 
Other than the fact that there aren't, fairly easily. Fusion power would be a simple variation of existing power systems and business models. The international consortium that is trying to build the first PoC fusion reactor isn't expecting to be built for at least 5 years and it isn't even going to generate electricity.

Whilst Teslas are driving around autonomously, albeit not always perfectly, already.

You missed the point. Never mind.
 
SpaceX is the biggest space launch company there is at the moment. They're also most of the way through a new satellite system that will earn them billions each year for broadband that no one can compete with. As a bonus they're also diversifying into building satellites, which is a huge market. If their plans for the new supersized rocket works out, and it looks like it will, they're going to utterly transform access to space. No one doubts spaceX anymore, exact details might vary but he's done so many things that were unthinkable you'd have to be an idiot to bet against him.

Sounds like a massive speculative investment, but will take years to be turned to a real profit.
 
You missed the point. Never mind.
What, that other companies with equally transformative business models might exist? Yeah there is Amazon. Fusion power doesn't really rate it.
 
What, that other companies with equally transformative business models might exist? Yeah there is Amazon.

Just leave it be, you were cold on you're 1st reply and getting colder. Apologies of my post sailed a couple of miles over your head.
 
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